Selected Applications

Previous chapters have described the main techniques which are used in river and coastal flood forecasting, whilst this chapter presents a selection of forecasting applications. These include integrated catchment forecasting models, and forecasting techniques for flash floods, snowmelt, ice jams, dams and reservoirs, control structures, urban drainage flooding, and geotechnical risks, such as Tsunami, debris flows, and dam break. The chapter also includes several examples in fields which are closely related to flood forecasting, such as the real time control and optimisation of reservoir and urban drainage systems. Some themes which run throughout the chapter are the use of ensemble and probabilistic techniques to provide information on risk and uncertainty, and the use of process-based, conceptual and data-based modelling approaches.